Bracelet watch-holder.



A. C. EOKERT. BRACELET WATCH HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1912.

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ALFRED G. ECKEBT, OF GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY.

BRACELET WATCH-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Application filed June 12, 1912. Serial No. 703,158.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED C. ECKERT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Glen Ridge, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracelet d atclrHolders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a new and improved watch holder, adapted to receive and hold an open face ladys watch, so that a watch of ordinary construction can be used as a bracelet watch, or in the ordinary manner suspended from a chain or hook, or in the belt with a fob, which bracelet watch holder is simple in construction, strong and durable and safe. as it prevents the watch becoming detached accidentally and dropping out of the holder.

In the accompanying drawings in which like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures: Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bracelet watch holder open, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the bracelet watch holder and the watch therein closed. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the watch holder, with a snap bezel connection, the frame and back being detached.

The bracelet 1 may be of any approved construction, shape, design or size and while being preferably constructed as an expansible spring link bracelet as shown, may be constructed of rigid members, provided with a spring catch or other suitable locking means. Two ends of the bracelet 1 are pivotally attached to diametrically opposite points of a circular frame 2 in the general shape of a watch bezel, adapted to receive snugly one half of the center of a watch case, this frame or bezel being provided at the top with a notch 3 adapted to receive the pendant 4: on the watch case 5, on which pendant is mounted the usual crown 6 and bow 7.

A removable circular back 8 is connected with the frame or bezel 2 at the bottom by means of ahinge 9 as hown in Fig. 2. The

back 8 may be solid as shown in Fig. l or as shown in Fig. 3 it may have an opening of greater or less diameter, in which latter case it has substantially the form of a bezel. As shown in Fig. 3 the back 8 may be held on the frame 2 by an ordinary snap joint such as used in holding the crystal bezel on a watch case. The convex curvature of the frame or bezel 2 is always to be at the front of the bracelet and the convex face of the back 8 on the inside of the bracelet so that when a watch is held between the frame or bezel 1 and the back 8 or its equivalent, the back of the holder will rest on the wrist, and the frame or bezel held on the watch by the tension on the bracelet so that accidental opening of the holder thus formed, and consequent releasing of the watch, is thus prevented. The back is also provided with a top notch 12 for the pendant when a hinge or snap joint is provided.

When the watch is to be used in the ordinary way it can readily be detached from the bracelet and may be placed into any one of a number of bracelets of difi'erent types or designs or any one of a number of different types of watches of proper size, can be placed into the bracelet watch holder, thus permitting of many variations to match the style of dress, etc.

The bracelet watch holder and watch have the same appearance as an ordinary bracelet watch in which the watch and bracelet are permanently connected and in which the watch can only be used with the bracelet and not otherwise.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a bracelet watch holder, the combination with a bracelet, of a watch holding frame shaped as a bezel and having a convexed outer and a concaved inner surface to fit on the watch case center, lugs on said frame, bracelet links pivoted to said lugs whereby the frame forms an integral part of the bracelet proper, a removable back for said frame, which back has its convexed outer face at the inside of the bracelet frame, the frame and back having notches New York and State of New York this 20th at the top for receiving the Watch pendant day of February A. D. 1912. and permitting of turmng the crown with out removing the Watch from the holder and ALL RED EOKERYL 5 means for holding the removable back on Witnesses: .the frame, substantially as set forth. J. C. BIGALKE,

Signed at New York city in the county of J 0s. S. BENNITT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for -five cents-each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

